by: Akshaya Pai, 14 Oh princess, Oh princessYour story was so wrongly toldThat made all little girls dreamOf a happily ever after when they’re old. But to live in our world,You must be a fighter.You may be written by a man,But you can still burn brighter. I promise to tellThe actual storyOf how Beauty tamed…
by: Team GenZone and Team News Left Behind On July 3, 2020, Philippine President Rodrigo Duerte signed into law one of the most controversial acts of its time. The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, described by Duerte, aims to eradicate terrorism in the Philippines. However, upon looking deeper beyond the name of this new law, which…
By: Sabreen Sukhija,17 and Jaanashee Punjabi,16 **Trigger Warning- Graphic Violence, Sex*al Assault ** Dear People of India, We look down from heaven every morning, the distinct memory of being crouched up in the corner of the cell, completely stripped of our skin, dignity and rights lingering in our minds. Our screams hid behind the deafening…
by:Nandini Misra,16 ”Oh my god! You have put on so much weight, why don’t you go on a diet? You will look so much better!” ”Why don’t you eat? You look so thin and weak, like a stick!” ”You know, you’re really pretty for a dark person.” ”You just don’t look Indian, you’re too fair!”…
By: Shreya Sudan,17 and Aadyaa Shukla Tiwari,17 Eurocentrism is a distorted ideology that presents western civilization as the pinnacle of human progress to the global south. At the core of Eurocentrism lies a binary way of thinking which constructs a white, progressive, modern, “civilized” European identity juxtaposed to an indigenous, developing, and traditional identity. The…
by: Pia Mathur ,16 and Sabreen Sukhjia,16 All too often, we let the women around us define their self-worth by the way their body looks. We’re very quick to judge these women, label them as “artificial” and brush it off like it’s no big deal. We never stop to think about WHY this happens. The…
by: Madhav Gupta,16 As the nation stares at a possible outbreak of the coronavirus, the question of whether and how the nation will be able to cope with it arises. India was hit by the pandemic later than most countries but it was struck at the time that the virus was exploding in places such…
by: Aadyaa Shukla Tiwari,17 Now that we are holed up in our homes in midst of a pandemic which poses an unforeseeable future we find ourselves going through a variety of emotions: while some of us have succumbed to tedium others are struggling with the prevailing anxiety. Thus it is high time to scour through…
by: Sanjana Bhargava,16 When a girl gets attached She is loyal and faithful She is honest and dependable She is trustable Most importantly she is vulnerable She will be annoying Clingy on some days She will be jealous, insecure, a tiny bit insane But that is solely because her love for you is insane You…
